Government Operations/Rules and Claims Committee is requested to coordinate with relevant staff to hold a meeting to discuss the feasibility of adding a private attorney budget item to the City Council budget

How it started

Jul 30, 2019 · Proposed by Councillor Kelley and Vice Mayor Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jul 30, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended

Recorded in the negative (1)

Timothy J. Toomey

Present for the voice vote (10)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Marc McGovern
Patricia Nolan
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Adopted by voice vote, with dissent recorded in the minutes. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions, but a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes. Councillor Timothy J. Toomey did (minutes of Jul 30, 2019, p. 36). Showing the other members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge · dissent: council minutes

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adopted as amendedJul 30, 2019

Heard in committeeGovernment Operations, Rules & Claims CommitteeDec 4, 2019

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

July 30, 2019

ORDERED: That the Government Operations/Rules and Claims Committee be and hereby is requested to coordinate with relevant staff to hold a meeting to discuss the feasibility of adding a private attorney budget item to the City Council budget. COUNCILLOR TOOMEY RECORDED IN THE NEGATIVE

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jul 30, 2019